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Subject: VERMEER, JAN (1632-1675)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARTE POVERA, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a poem by stevens (his latest manner)
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675); Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Headstones


LACEMAKER (VEERMEER), by ANNE MARX    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a world of orange serenity
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)


PITCHER, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sunny afternoon; think of vermeer
Last Line: Then she will stop to hold this moment near, %not drop the pitcher, nor betray vermeer
Variant Title(s): Still Lif
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)


THE PITCHER, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sunny afternoon; think of vermeer
Last Line: And drop the pitcher, and betray vermeer
Variant Title(s): Still Life
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)


VERMEER, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands by the table, poised
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)


VERMEER, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands by the table, poised
Last Line: As though the light at the window %were a newborn child %andher arms open enough %to hold it on her
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)


VERMEER, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No protected world - just behind the wall the noise begins
Last Line: I am not empty, I am open
Subject(s): Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675); Walls


VERMEER'S A WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picture-within-a-picture closed on themselves: a
Last Line: Try to cross it. The painting means: itself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675)